OUTLINE FOR SUMMER READING PROJECT

For Fast Food Nation….

Choose one of the prompts…

Introduction

  • Your introduction sets up your entire paper.
  • Make and argument from the given prompt. This is how you form a thesis statement
  • If you think OSHA should have stricter regulations for the meatpacking industry, then you should state why. Your thesis statement should be a declarative sentence that answers why the regulations should be tighter.
  • All of the reasons that support your reason why regulations should go tighter should also appear in your introduction.
  • Sometimes students will list their supporting reasons. As we learn more about the writing process, your writing style for previewing your supporting arguments will change and become more sophisticated.
  • Don’t forget to mention the title of the book and the author within your introduction. Make sure you underline or italicize the book title.

Body Paragraphs

  • Think of each of your body paragraphs as one of your supporting reasons that support your thesis statement in your introduction.
  • For example, if you think that OSHA should have stricter regulations because the European Union does and why should US consumers have to deal with a lower quality of meat/meat safety, that whole idea becomes one of your body paragraphs
  • If you are using direct quotes/material/paraphrase from the book to support your ideas, make sure you cite it properly (Author’s last name (space) page #) (Schhlosser 55).
  • The number of body paragraphs you have relate to your supporting ideas, so if you have three supporting ideas, you have three body paragraphs.

Conclusion

  • This is where you tie all of your ideas together.
  • Make sure you have proved your thesis statement.
  • You might want to make a text-world connection as you see fit.

Outliers Outline

Introduction

  • Your introduction sets up your entire paper.
  • Make and argument from the given prompt. This is how you form a thesis statement.
  • For example, you need to define what you think Gladwell’s point of view is on the issue of success and its origins based on your own reading. You have to see the big picture with all of the examples and stories that he provided and decide on what stories best highlight his point of view.
  • Think about what he was saying about birth order and the hockey players OR
  • The success of the lawyers in the 1920’s OR
  • ETC.
  • Sometimes students will list their supporting reasons. As we learn more about the writing process, your writing style for previewing your supporting arguments will change and become more sophisticated.
  • Don’t forget to mention the title of the book and the author within your introduction. Make sure you underline or italicize the book title.

Body Paragraphs

  • Think of each of your body paragraphs as one of your supporting reasons that support your thesis statement in your introduction.
  • If you think the main point of Gladwell’s book was that the time period in which you are born determines how successful you are, then you need to choose supporting stories to back up that argument.
  • The number of body paragraphs you have relate to your supporting ideas, so if you have three supporting ideas, you have three body paragraphs.
  • If you are taking material/quotes/paraphrase from the book, don’t forget to cite it properly, Insert the quote and then (Author’s last name (space) page number). (Gladwell 44).

Conclusion

  • This is where you tie all of your ideas together.
  • Make sure you have proved your thesis statement.
  • You might want to make a text-world connection as you see fit.